bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:
I assume you're saying 1997? Heh.
Turok and Star Fox were already out by this point, Nintendo's holiday line up for 97 basically was only Diddy Kong Racing.
Unfortunately though GoldenEye wasn't strong enough to prevent the Playstation from overcoming the N64 and starting to really outsell the N64, before that the N64 was outselling the Playstation fairly regularily in North America. But Final Fantasy VII came in September 1997 and too many other games, the N64 just couldn't plausibly stand up to it, though GoldenEye kept its head above water at least.
Without that game I think Christmas '97 and 1st half of '98 at least would've been really, really ugly.
That damn CD-ROM decision or inability for Nintendo to at least compromise with their development partners. Imagine if Nintendo had GoldenEye AND Final Fantasy VII for fall 1997 .... game over man, game over.
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Well, looking it up, I was mistaken about Yoshi's Island (which released 1998), but the other 2 released in 1997.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_64
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok:_Dinosaur_Hunter
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Yes I remember that, but as I said, they were already released by summer 1997. After that Zelda 64, F-Zero 64, and Banjo-Kazooie were supposed to be the holiday games for the N64 and they all got delayed.
The first half of 1997 was pretty good for the N64 actually, like I said until that point the N64 was still outselling the Playstation in North America. Unfortunately the lack of games just caught up to Nintendo. Sad really. Final Fantasy VII should've joined GoldenEye on the N64 and gone on to wreck holiday 1997.
Without GoldenEye, I think N64 sales would've plumetted but they at least stayed stable.
